Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abortive Assault. When the main force arrived, its good humor had begun to fray. An assault squad wielding clubs and ax handles probed the rope barriers in front of the Pentagon entrances, taunting and testing white-hatted federal marshals who stood in close ranks along the line. After 90-odd minutes of steadily rising invective and roiling around in the north parking lot of the Pentagon, flying wedges of demonstrators surged toward the less heavily defended press entrance...
...casualties can ever be considered a bargain, the snipers provide the biggest bargain of the war: the cartridges they use cost only 13?. Appropriately enough, they thus call themselves "the 13? killers." In the past eight months, the 90-odd snipers of the 1st Marine Division have recorded over 450 confirmed kills, against four dead of their own-an astonishing kill ratio of better than...
Included in this group are the "fantastics," born between 1910 and 1930, who explore odd materials and resort to private mythologies, whether through the twisted polyurethane of Chamberlain, the plaster casts of Segal, the junk sculpture of Stankiewicz, or the soft objects of Claes Oldenburg. On the bottom three tiers, and on the ground floor and bottom levels, in stage center, are the minimalists, including Tony Smith (TIME cover, Oct. 13). It is Fry's opinion that the minimalists, who build industrially produced large-scale works, are trying to achieve a "tabula rasa, the clean slate upon which...
...Coach McKay favors a more conservative approach-like giving the ball to O.J. Simpson 30-odd times a game. At 5.4 yds. a crack, why not? Besides, says McKay, "O.J. doesn't belong to any union. He can carry the ball as many times as we want...
...Union Carbide Engineer Roger Thompson, "that the very air you breathe turns to liquid or freezes as solid as a block of ice, where steel is as brittle as glass, a rubber ball shatters when it hits the floor, and lead is an almost perfect conductor of electricity." The odd goings-on described by Engineer Thompson all occur in the far-out world of cryogenics-the science of ultra-low temperatures...